Page 57 of Deny Thy Name


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I was going to end his tyranny.

I was going to end my pain.

He was never going to hurt anyone again.

Just as I was about to take the plunge and pull the trigger, I saw his side door burst open and Natasha threw herself down beside me. Roman had his gun trained on her so she didn’t do anything stupid. She had tears in her eyes as I stepped back, the gun still on my father but not at his temple.

That was when it had dawned on me. I had always thought it had been Rose who had told him about my rebellion at fourteen, about sneaking out and partying with boys that got me sent to St Augustine’s…but it wasn’t. It was her.

My closest confidante.

She’d betrayed me all this time and now she was begging for me to stop, to let her and my father go and be free. She really believed he would protect her, that he would run away and be free of the power for her.

She didn’t know my father and I felt bad for her.

“You betrayed me,” I said to her. The pain of realizing she had never been a friend to me but rather a spy put in place by my father hit me hard. Harder than I thought it would.

“No,” she said, her voice croaky from her tears. “Not at first. I really was just your maid but I fell in love with your father over the years.”

“I don’t believe that.”

“I swear,” he sobbed. “I swear, please don’t hurt him.”

“Then who was the one who told him what I was up to before St Augustine’s?” I asked.

My father laughed, that stupid and annoying laugh that told me he found this incredibly stupid. That only prompted my anger further.

“What’s so funny?” I said through gritted teeth.

“It wasn’t Natasha you foolish child, it was the one person in the family you told everything to. The one who always wanted to have your place in the family.”

It was Rose, after all.

That bitch.

I looked down at the whore Roman had just executed and smiled before I looked back at Natasha and my father.

“Still, loving this despicable man knowing what he’s done to me,” I said to Natasha. “I’m doing you a favor.”

I moved the gun over and shot her between the eyes without a moment’s hesitation. She fell back on the floor, her eyes wide open. Edward looked down at her and then up at me with unfeeling eyes. Not one shred of emotion.

He’d used her just as he used everyone around him. I doubted this man could ever love.

“As heartless as always,” I said, aiming the gun at his head and pulling the trigger before he had the time to speak. He fell back, his head hitting the floor hard, before it turned away from us. Roman moved around to check he was dead. I felt my hand shaking, but as I looked down at it, I realized it wasn’t shaking, it was moving because I was laughing.

I felt the vibrations in my chest as I looked down at the two people who had hurt me, then over at Rose who had betrayed me.

I was finally free.

“Come on,” Roman said, taking my hand. I looked up at him, seeing the urgency in his eyes. “I can hear the sirens already.”

I got up on my toes and kissed him hard. He circled my waist, the gun on my ass as he deepened the kiss. At this moment, I don’t think either of us cared if we got arrested. We’d done exactly what we had needed to in order to be free.

I pulled from him for a moment, the crazed look in his eye was one I would relish forever but I knew it was going to be hard to stay alive during this.

The city was in chaos. Half of it was on fire, most of the inhabitants had been driven out of it, but the crazed sheriff, still heavy in his grief, was on a warpath for those responsible for Gunnar’s death.

This shit was going to end bad.

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